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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
transalpine is a noun and adjective meaning "one living on or coming from the other side of the Alps from Italy". It carries 2 recorded senses.
one living on or coming from the other side of the Alps from Italy
on or relating to or characteristic of the region or peoples beyond the Alps from Italy (or north of the Alps)
“ancient transalpine Gaul was an area northwest of the Alps and included modern France and Belgium”
“Cracow was a transalpine university”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for transalpine come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.